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Feb 19, 2016

Ultimate winner in VR Live Action Sports

Would you agree or disagree with this statement?: “The ultimate winner in live-action-sports-VR will be a company that captures players and the field/court using light field technology & micro sensors within jerseys.”

~I love when people disagree bc it helps to speed up my understanding ~ email me at Don@virtualrealityinvestment.com with feedback please.

I can imagine a world where Lytro cameras are located at all corners of a sports stadium. Broadcasting live to viewers at home a perfect representation of the game and players. The advantage of light field: Viewers from home could not only look around in 360 from different vantage points — but because the game was captured using lightfield the players have actual 3D dimensions and shape to them. This allows the viewer at home to put on a VR headset and move freely around the 3D stadium just as she/he would in real life.

At VRLA this year I demo’d a somewhat similar company that uses “tags or other optical technology” to track live players. I was located in Los Angeles in the real world, but using a VR headset was able to walk around a soccer game happening in Europe just as if I was there.But better, why? Because you can not just walk around and take field-side seats, you can walk directly on the field and sit inside of the net as your favorite players try to sneak one past the goal keeper. (I did this).